«Space Program: Europa»: Artist Tom Sachs creates vast
fictional narratives of space flight and exploration out of makeshift sculptures and cobbled - together teams of actors.
His performances, paintings and sculptures deal with the mythological aspects the everyday and
fictional narratives of the present.
For its part, the Crock - Pot brand has gently pushed back against
the fictional narrative of This Is Us, with representatives of the company issuing a statement to The Washington Post.
Through this project I have created
a fictional narrative of a woman who moves between cultures, sometimes at the margins, yet most often at the center of attention.
Not exact matches
John McAteer's study
of ambiguity in
narrative along with Phil Tallon's witty dialogue between three
fictional characters on a Tarantino set illustrate this ambivalence quite well.
The end rest is a very comforting
fictional narrative you've chosen to believe, while people in some other part
of the world have chosen to believe a completely different
fictional narrative.
A short description
of all religions: A
fictional narrative intended to help people avoid dealing with some
of the harsh realities
of life and encourage them to be better citizens and members
of the society in which they live.
Your brain's inner
narrative is a
fictional self - defense mechanism which is trying to justify your self - aggrandizing, your feelings
of misguided moral righteousness, and your hatred
of others.
Without any reason to believe there is any truth to what you believe, and believing instead that you've just brainwashed to embrace a comforting
fictional narrative, what's my incentive to give any
of it any credence at all?
A childhood memoir written half a century after the events it describes is inevitably novelistic, and Oz explicitly alludes to the shaping
of his
narrative in
fictional terms.
David Hall, a longtime acquaintance
of Carson who said he watched the two work together, claims that Andrews supplied rough sketches from her experiences in Beverly Hills, and Carson wove them into a
fictional narrative describing her exotic adventures with various shamans based on his own knowledge
of Native American culture.
While they are rarely explicitly stated, they emerge in dramatic or
narrative form in almost all forms
of fictional and non-fiction programming: news, sports, drama, situation comedies, advertisements, soap operas, and children's cartoons.
A
narrative form
of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a short
fictional story whose characters are taken from everyday life.
For two examples
of a more effective (not to mention less
fictional)
narrative approach, recall John F. Kennedy's justly famous «Ich bin ein Berliner» speech from 1963.
Add to these factors how compellingly a good
narrative story can tie it all together — think
of Oliver Stone's JFK or Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, both equally
fictional.
The gameplay consisted
of not only moving the character through the game environment, but also making a dozen multiple choice decisions about the character's actions in an unfolding
fictional narrative.
For example, in the
fictional narratives, most
of the minor characters link to the main character.
In any other
fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy
narrative you simply get a bad piece
of fiction.
Yet what the film lacks is the substance
of its progenitor, the concreteness
of a certain visual grammar and
narrative originality The Matrix used to transform itself into a work
of surprising science -
fictional elegance.
An epigraph before the movie warns us not to take anything we're about to see too seriously — probably because, while Hughes was a real figure, the movie compresses various events
of his life and inserts
fictional characters, eventually taking on the cast
of an old,
fictional Hollywood
narrative closer to Sunset Boulevard than a biopic.
10:00 pm — TCM — A Night to Remember Rather than graft a
fictional narrative on the sinking
of the Titanic (as did both the 1953 and 1997 films entitled Titanic), this film attempts to stay as true as possible to the truth
of what actually happened, using only people and stories that were actually on the boat.
Sure, the flick is not perfect, but it does a good job
of meshing real - life events and dark, literary works with the
fictional narrative!
Its
narrative was written by Pamuk, and it is the third part
of the Nobel Prize winner's multimedia artwork that comprises a novel (Museum
of Innocence, 2008) and a museum in Istanbul filled with «real» objects attributed to the novel's
fictional characters.
Ford's cinematic influences are overtly placed — everything from the iconography and satire
of DR. STRANGELOVE (as shown in the war room scene), to the
narrative drive
of STRAW DOGS (as shown in the grippingly tense scenes with
fictional Tony's harassers, led by a perfectly - cast Aaron Taylor - Johnson), to the tangible feel
of David Lynch's oeuvre, to the cunning bite
of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES.
While Porterfield's aesthetic gambit with Putty Hill — utilizing documentary techniques to convey a
fictional narrative — resulted in a remarkable hybrid form
of experiential cinema, I Used To Be Darker arguably ups the ante by pairing a similarly observational naturalism (sans interviews) with more traditionally - plotted melodrama.
And that's what this film becomes: an experience as much in the texture
of this
fictional life, growing up from first grade to arriving at college, as in the
narrative journey.
That's what this film becomes: an experience as much in the texture
of this
fictional life, growing up from first grade to arriving at college, as in the
narrative journey.
IRIS is a collective
of women filmmakers founded by Kyle Ann Stokes, Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon to champion the female voice through
fictional narrative film.
Everything about this film is slightly raised and excessive: the autumnal colours
of the past, the cold formalism
of the present, the exaggerated
narrative and performances in the
fictional world.
Time travel plays a key role in the movie's distended wormhole
of a
narrative, which takes inspiration from textbooks both real (Stephen Hawking's «A Brief History
of Time») and
fictional («The Philosophy
of Time Travel,» written by Roberta Sparrow, who is played in the film by Patience Cleveland).
This fascinating
narrative follows the digital journey
of the
fictional «Andy» from pre-birth to adulthood by tracking his «digital footprint.»
We see this type
of passive teacher in the classic movie trope that we love in
fictional narratives.
This is a
narrative - planning strategy (personal or
fictional) that incorporates the basic structure
of narrative (i.e., SPACE) and the steps for planning and writing a good story (i.e., LAUNCH).
Like Cervantes»
fictional hero Don Quixote — an appropriate analogy since their
narratives are also the stuff
of fiction — they charge at windmills, dragons
of their own making, including teacher unions, underperforming district administrators and, in some cases, such as in Bridgeport, democratically elected school boards, all in the name
of the fixing the «crisis» in American education.
For novels,
fictional anecdotes in nonfiction, and true stories told in a
narrative style, I highlight areas where you can «show, not tell,» use active voice rather than passive, and weave in more sensory details and point -
of - view characters» observations, thoughts, and feelings.
Writing in a first - person - plural
narrative, Ferris satirized the American workplace by exploring a
fictional Chicago advertising agency at the end
of the 90s Internet boom.
This
fictional collage picturing the life
of Doc Holliday — constructed from newspaper clippings, interviews, poetry, and personal
narrative — is ultimately a meditation on the Old West.
Although a number touch on certain developments in passing — Louise Fitzhugh's The Long Secret (1965) has an excellent, biologically matter -
of - fact chapter on periods — there aren't many
fictional works that incorporate puberty as a theme throughout the
narrative.
But the
narrative thread that vaulted the book to the front
of the publication queue has to do with Philip Hadi, a somewhat mysterious and very wealthy New York money manager who owns a summer place in Dee's
fictional Berkshires town
of Howland.
But in Shari Goldhagen's skilled
narrative, these twists reveal themselves naturally in a sort
of fictional six degrees
of separation.
Consider the
narrative impact
of experiencing
fictional family photo albums, sci - fi computer dossiers, fake newspaper clippings, video blogs from your characters, etc..
In addition to the content, these
narratives can be used for their literary content and examined to learn more about the craft
of writing, including point
of view and descriptive language to convey real or
fictional events.
Engage students in a discussion about the first - person point
of view as it differs in the
fictional novel Drita, My Homegirl and the two personal
narratives in Making It Home.
Author Steven M. Wells explores the issues in a
fictional narrative that is at once a seminar on the law concerning sexual assault on campus and the story
of a young woman discovering its complexities at a personal level.
The word «novella» is derived from the feminine derivative
of the Italian word «new» and the reference source, wikipedia.org, defines «novella» as «a written
fictional prose
narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel».
The
narrative, a short story written in the early 1880s by Frank R. Stockton, relates the tale
of a
fictional kingdom in which men facing punishment must choose between two identical doors, one hiding a lovely woman to be th...
Bensley's design
narrative for the site was a
fictional academy
of learning, Lamarck University, inspired by French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck.
This is why it is far easier to mount a
narrative on the backbone
of something like Grand Theft Auto, where the player is presumed to be an anti-social ne'er - do - well (or rather, that they will act as such in the
fictional world!).
Shadow
of Mordor, a role - playing game set in the
fictional universe
of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle - earth, has bagged five nominations, including Game
of the Year, Innovation Award, Best Design, Best
Narrative, and Best Technology.
This dominant
narrative surrounding the inevitability
of female objectification and victimhood is so powerful that it not only defines our concepts
of reality but it even sets the parameters for how we think about entirely
fictional worlds, even those taking place in the realms
of fantasy and science fiction.